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Las formas para mejorar las competencias de escritura académica de los estudiantes siguen ampliamente inexploradas. Los requerimientos de lecto-escritura en la educación superior no son alcanzados efectivamente por los estudiantes, especialmente los relacionados con la escritura académica en inglés, que son más estrictos. Este proyecto busca implementar un modelo de asistencia a la escritura en una licenciatura en bilingüismo de una universidad pública colombiana. Se ofrecieron semanalmente sesiones de acompañamiento con tutores a 16 estudiantes de un curso de escritura académica en un semestre. Fueron caracterizados los patrones de errores con rúbricas analíticas, y las reacciones de los estudiantes con respecto a la asistencia que recibieron fueron recolectadas por medio de un cuestionario. Los resultados muestran que los estudiantes se benefician significativamente con el acompañamiento del profesor y los tutores en términos de la conciencia metalingüística, el conocimiento del proceso de la escritura y el uso de convenciones lingüísticas.

Nora Lucía Marulanda Ángel, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira

Ph.D. in Educational Administration at Ohio University. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Journalism from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Full-time assistant professor in the Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program at the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira.

Dr. Marulanda’s most recent research project is aimed to assess the impact of the newly-created Academic Writing Assistance Center (AWAC) on the compositional skills of students in the Bilingual English Teacher Preparation Program.

Juan Manuel Martínez García, Universidad Tecnólogica de Pereira

Senior student from the Bilingual English Teacher Preparation Program at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira where he works as a junior researcher. He is a tutor at the Academic Writing Assistance Center where he provides support to undergraduate students’ text compositions. He currently works as an English and German facilitator at Instituto de Lenguas Extranjeras (ILEX). He is interested in the fields of bilingual literacy, second-language acquisition and pedagogy.

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Recibido 2019-03-27
Aceptado 2019-04-30
Publicado 2019-07-29